MSI GF Series GF65 9SEXR-436CA Thin 15.6" 120 Hz IPS Intel Core i7 9th Gen 9750H (2.60 GHz) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 16 GB Memory 512 GB NVMe SSD Windows 10 Home 64-bit Gaming Laptop

Pros: Super light! Going from a super heavy alienware to this makes it almost hard to believe that it performs better. Very fast, too. Screen sharpness and colours are very vibrant.

Cons: Fans are a little loud but it's as to be expected. The outer shell almost immediately started picking up finger prints which makes it look a little dirty.

Overall Review: Overall, though, I would definitely recommend it for the price you're paying.

Pros: -Build quality much better than some reviewers made me think -price point for a medium/high end laptop is great -cooling is easy to control and pretty efficient (i recommend a cooling pad as well) -it is insanely light -trackpad is precise -It is insanely Fast !

Cons: -Gimmicky gamer look -trackpad click is spongy (use a mouse) -2 usb ports are on the same side (right) -battery life (expected from a gaming laptop) -single channel RAM (u should upgrade it, it does not void the warranty)

Overall Review: 100% recommend for this price point !

Pros: SSD is lightning fast, set up a breeze, and literally all the power I need for gaming and work

Cons: The screen is meh and the fan is Uber loud

Overall Review: For the price it is a great laptop!

Pros: - Can play many resource heavy games at the highest settings - It's light and very portable (assuming you are using bag of some sort to carry it in) - Very quiet when your simply surfing the internet doesn't stay quiet when playing high intensive games

Cons: - The laptop gets extremely HOT when playing games, primarily the top portion of the keyboard and because it gets super hot this laptop will increase its fan speed/noise to remove that heat. - Fingerprints are easily noticeable - The laptop speaker isn't the greatest but you can plug in a earphone/headphone to negate it - Battery life isn't greatest either, in particular games. If you play games without it being charged it will die very quickly.

Overall Review: This is my first laptop and I've been using it for one week now so do keep that in mind. Any problems I mentioned could have been simply an issue with MY laptop so I'm not too sure if it's the same for everyone. If you are intending to buy this laptop for ONLY surfing the web, writing papers, and watching videos/movies then I would consider looking for a cheaper laptop elsewhere but don't get me wrong this laptop will do that but I think you're better off saving a couple of dollars (hundreds) if those are your only concerns. Otherwise, if you are planning to play some games as well then this is the perfect laptop. (Assuming the laptop is plugged in) From experience playing games on the highest settings has always gave me 120+ FPS without any input lag, stutters or frame drops. These games being Divinity 2 Original Sin, Total War: Warhammer 2, Left 4 Dead 2, and Warframe. Because you are getting outstanding performances the heat of the laptop will jump insanely high (around 80C - 90C), in turn increases the fan speed/noise which will bother you or not. When I was trying to decrease these temps, the best way is to cap the frames of these games (if they offer it) which will keep it relatively low (around 70-85). I have tried undervolting, playing with the fan curves, and using cooling pads to negate this but only seen 1C - 5C drops, it honestly could have just been me but it didn't work. If you do intend to play with the temps being 80C - 90C I suggest taking 1-2 hour breaks to cool it down otherwise it will begin to avg 90C temps. If you can handle the heat and the fan speed/noise then this laptop will not let you down! Otherwise you're better off getting a PC that has the proper cooling to cool down it's components. I can't say much on video editing, Photoshop or animation/animatics of that sort so if you are looking for aspects such as that then do some research to finalize your purchase choice. My verdict: Great purchase if you are intending to surf the web, play games and comfortable with the heat (80C - 90C) and the fan speed/noise. If you don't play many games, do consider looking for more laptop options.

Pros: Best power for the price right now, excellent gpu and cpu for gaming. SSD is the KBG40ZNV512G KIOXIA for the curious.

Cons: No dual external monitor support - this was a heartbreaker for me. MSI's blog suggests that their laptops with USB-C support external monitors, and some random redditor claimed success with dual external monitors, but I'm pretty sure the USB-c ports on this laptop do not support displays (I tried with a known-good hdmi usb-c hub). You'll need something like a Miracast or Chromecast to connect a second external display. This would be less of an issue if the built-in screen wasn't awful. It's 120Hz, but the screen is very high-persistence so there's a lot of smearing on fast moving content - it's barely an improvement on 60Hz. The colors are also really bad, with the red channel being especially washed out, and MSI provides no way to calibrate the monitor.

Overall Review: If price is your main consideration, this laptop is good value, but if you care about good displays, look elsewhere.

Pros: - It is extremely light and quite small, which I am very happy about since I need to transport this laptop all the time. - Very fast and efficient. Runs all games I've tried perfectly at maxed or high settings. - It has another M.2 slot - needed considering that 512 GO is not a lot. - Very good heat control - there are A LOT of openings below the pc for air to come out. - The fans are really not that loud. - It has 2 USB C ports (for recent Android phones, mostly). - Not really related to the laptop itself, but shipping was real quick, arrived in only 3 days.

Cons: - This is the part that made me consider returning the laptop: The speakers are HORRIBLE. They don't even come close to the speakers of my old laptop, and I don't even think that they were that good. Not only is the sound quality terrible, but the sound is also SUPER LOW. Luckily I am now getting used to it a little bit. What helped the most is Nahimic: although the program barely works (...), when I finally got it to work, it helped the sound quality a little bit, and increased the volume considerably. But honestly, if it weren't for Nahimic, I would have probably returned the pc. - The battery life is surprisingly bad considering it is band new. - Hard to open - I had to pay for a professional to install the extra SSD I bought because it would have been too dangerous to open it myself since I didn't have the adequate equipment. - Picks up fingerprints easily. - Only 2 USB A 3.0 ports, and on the same side. - When playing, the laptop gets pretty hot, but mostly on the top, so it is not too bothering. - Not a deal breaker for me at all, but the camera is pretty bad quality (pixelated) and the colors are very desaturated, I'm pretty much in black and white, ahah. (I'm exagerating but you get what I mean) - I also had a problem with the microphone driver: it would not detect my voice unless I screamed or had my microphone in my mouth. Went through A LOT of trouble to fix that, I was pretty discouraged... But I think I was just unlucky on this one.

Overall Review: I think I kind of understand why this laptop has such a good value for money - especially since I bought it on sale : all the parts that are usually not important to gamers, such as the camera - because you don't game with your webcam on - the speakers - because you play with headphones on - and the battery - because you never game with the laptop unplugged - are the cheapest parts of this pc. It is not necessarily a bad thing, and I think a lot of gamers would be happy with such a good pc, although it does have its inconvenients. It is definitely a solid gaming laptop, worth it in my opinion (although I am still salty about the sound... ahah.) so I would recommend it: not to anyone though. Good to know: 1. The plug is actually on the middle instead of the top of the pc. It confused me at first because I had never seen that, but in the end it doesn't bother me at all. 2. You have to toggle the camera on for it to work (Press FN + F6). Again, I didn't understand at first, but I actually think that it is a good feature.

Pros: Great gaming performance. Quite small and light for a gaming laptop. Will priced for the spec. Cooler boost really keeps the cpu at a reasonable temp during extreme load.

Cons: Top left of keyboard gets really hot. Cooler boost is LOUD when enabled. Crippled usb-c implementation. No thunderbolt. Screen color gamut is terrible.

Overall Review: It's got some heavy downsides (the screen and the usb-c implementation) But the raw gaming performance is stellar for this price. This will play at 1080p high settings any game out there right now, and play it well.

Overall Review: Probably one of the most powerful budget laptops on the market. It’s great, it runs pretty much all modern titles on ultra with 60fps+, what more could you want. The only downside for me is the lack of an hdd slot and that there’s only 2 usb ports